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$20,000 in Perl Contest

Posted by Hemos on from the more-money dept.

[rvr] writes "Are you a Perl hacker? Do you want a Apple G5 with a 23" screen, a 17" PowerBook, a Thinkpad or iPods? Six Apart, the company behind of Movable Type and TypePad, is running a contest of plug-ins for Movable Type 3.0. The total amount of prizes is $22,000. The deadline is June 18, 2004."

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  1. challenging... by http · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I recently re-read 'The AWK Programming Language' (a predecessor of PERL), and so had strongly in mind that no implementation is infinite. But come on, a line with 20 000 fields? You need to talk to the people generating the data before expanding the language.
    ;)

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